The relevance of the problem of the formation of artistic communication is due to the high requirements for the personal activity of a person, as well as his ability to interact with other people in various forms of social relations. Interaction is one of the main mechanisms of the educational process, as indicated in the content of the Federal State Educational Standards. Modern students should be ready to conduct a dialogue, find compromises, be tolerant, tolerant, be able to accept other people's opinions and defend their own. The formation of communication skills can be implemented not only within the framework of general educational institutions, but also in extracurricular educational institutions. This article presents the stages of formation of one of the types of communication - artistic in musical groups of the system of additional education. At the same time, it is indicated that the varieties of artistic communication are: real communication between subjects and unreal (quasi-communication). The form of activation of artistic communication among younger schoolchildren is an ensemble - a performing group, which is available as a subject of various educational programs of the system of additional musical education. The purpose of this article is to reveal the content of the stages of the methodology for the formation of artistic communication among students of the children’s art school - members of the violin ensemble. The research methods presented in the article are the analysis and systematization of literature, the generalization of the results of the implementation of the stages of the formation of artistic communication, statistical methods. The materials of the article can be used by the leaders of musical ensembles to form the skills of artistic communication among the participants, which contribute to the achievement of high-quality creative results.